"The most common characteristic of all police states is intimidation by surveillance. Citizens know they are being watched and overheard. Their mail is being examined. Their homes can be invaded." ~ Vance Packard

Lock Up Your Cell Phone!

“Michigan State Police are now asking for your cell phone along with the standard travelling papers you are required to present. If you hand it over, they use a device called UFED to download its contents. Everything. Contacts, texts, GPS data tracking everywhere you have been, photos, videos, notes. Probably even GPS records of how fast you have driven and where, which they could conceivably use as probable cause for the search in the first place, if speeding is what they pulled you over for.” By what right? How much more? Me? Never. I would smash it to a million pieces first. With my teeth if need be. It’s mine, not theirs, and I can break it if I want to. And, I DAMN SURE wouldn’t be paying their salaries.